CAIRO, Sept. 17 (UPI) -- Egyptian presidential candidate Amr Moussa said Saturday the peace treaty between Egypt and Israel is not subject to change, as he has said previously.
Moussa told Kuwaiti newspaper al-Jarida the 1979 Camp David Accords have "become a historical record," the Middle East News Agency reported. Earlier in the month, he had said the peace treaty was open to change since it is "neither a Koran nor a Bible."
Since tensions between Egypt and Israel have heightened recently, there have been calls in Egypt for amendments to the peace treaty, which ended the state of war between the two nations and divided much of the Sinai Peninsula into three zones with different security rules, MENA said.
Security issues have come to the forefront recently with the unintended deaths of six Egyptian security force members during Israeli military raids near the border on Aug. 18.
